TIME (6/6, Sifferlin) reports that just “about 4% of interpersonal violence in the United States can be attributed to mental illness…yet close to 40% of news stories about mental illness connect it to violent behavior that harms other people,” research published in Health Affairs suggests. Researchers arrived at that conclusion after examining “400 news articles about mental illness that were published over two decades, from 1994 to 2014, in popular news outlets.” Time also notes, “According to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), people with severe mental illnesses are more than 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than people in the general population.”
Related Links:
— “Most Violent Crimes Are Wrongly Linked to Mental Illness,” Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, June 6, 2016.